tango-nexus

Astro site for NEXUS — Portland's All Alternative Tango Weekend (Sept 11–13).

npm install
npm run dev        # localhost:4321
npm run build
npm run lint:css   # lasertag — find dead CSS
npx astro check    # types

The hero mark

NEXUS is generated by @celilo/visualizer: a word rendered as the negative space in smooth flowing water.

The whole look lives in src/nexus-mark.json — nothing else needs editing. Tune it in the visualizer's /flow route (cd ../celilo/packages/visualizer && bun run dev, then http://localhost:3000/flow), hit EXPORT JSON, and paste the result over that file. It's a CeliloMarkOptions, which is exactly what renderCeliloMark() takes — no conversion step.

The canvas is decoration: the accessible name is a visually-hidden <span> in the <h1>, and a render failure is caught so the heading still reads.

Fonts are copied into public/fonts/ and declared in BaseLayout.astro. A font name alone is not enough — an undeclared family silently falls back to sans-serif and the mask comes out the wrong shape.

Conventions

@celilo/visualizer is linked by relative path (file:../celilo/packages/…), so this repo expects celilo checked out as a sibling. It ships TypeScript source, which Vite compiles — no build step or config needed.

CSS follows lasertag: each component has a same-stem .module.css, and its root is its own kebab-case custom element carrying class={css.class}. A module exposes only class — one per component. Style everything inside with nested element / custom-element selectors, not extra local classes. *Layout components are exempt (lasertag treats them as transparent slot wrappers).

Gotchas

• TypeScript is pinned to ^6. typescript@latest is now 7.x, which astro check can't use (it needs a programmatic API that TS 7's native compiler doesn't ship yet). lasertag depends on an exact typescript@7.0.2; npm nests that copy, so both tools work. Don't "upgrade" TypeScript here without re-running astro check.
• lasertag pins engines to node 26.5.0 / pnpm 11.13.0 exactly. It installs and runs fine on node 24 under npm, with an EBADENGINE warning.

TODO

• The signup form has no endpoint — the submit button is disabled on purpose, so a signup can't be silently dropped. Wire ENDPOINT in SignupForm.astro when there's somewhere to post.
• The "Volunteer for the event?" option text was truncated in the source screenshot; verify the real wording.